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Local Liquor Stores Show Off Argentina's Mastered Malbec
Last week, it was all Chardonnay. This week, it's all other stuff: recently received white wines from half a dozen different white-grape varieties.
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cosmo_girl |
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Pair Local Fair with Family Farmed Wines
I recently popped into one of my favorite local wine shops, Firefly Fine Wines, to find some valuable vintages. Much to my delight, Firefly is carryi...
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cosmo_girl |
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Oregon legend David Lett dies
David Lett, whose 1975 Pinot Noir put Oregon on the global wine map, passed away late Thursday of heart failure. He was 69.We've posted a story from T...
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Ste. Michelle partner Antinori on '60 Minutes' this weekend
Piero Antinori, the 25th generation of winemakers of Antinori in Italy, will be featured Sunday on 60 Minutes. Antinori is a partner with Ste. Michel...
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Decoding a Wine Label
You can learn a lot about a wine before you buy it. The trick is to know what the wine label can tell you. Authors of Had a Glass 2008 James Nevison a...
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angela-chih |
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Fountain of youth? At least an excuse to drink more...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A compound in red wine may ward off a variety of medical conditions related to aging, providing heart benefits, stronger bones ...
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MintyPop |
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Crooks with taste?
How much wine could you buy for $1 million?
Langley RCMP figure about 1,388 cases of it after a thief made off with a stolen semi-truck and trailer...
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doneen |
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Mission Hill Estate Winery Awarded Top Honor for Icewine
Germany makes great icewine. So do Austria, New Zealand and the Czech Republic.
But a 2006 Okanagan vintage, produced by Mission Hill Family Estate...
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cosmo_girl |
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I'm not there
I'm Not ThereA FarewellOctober 6th, 2008By Jason ChinFormer Eat Vancouver EditorPerceptive readers may have noticed a lack of Eat Vancouver posts over...
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Eat Vancouver |
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Okanagan Wine Festival touring tips for beginners
Wine writer Anthony Gismondi breaks it down with Sophie Lui on GlobalTV BC. I like his first advice...be the grape. Enjoy the surroundings, get to kno...
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BC Wine Lover |
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'Bottle Shock' fun, but it's no documentary
It is difficult to tell whether wine lovers will like Bottle Shock, the film released this summer loosely based on the 1976 Judgment of Paris tastin...
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Quinoa and Black Bean Salad
Quinoa is 100% whole grain and is close to being a perfect food source. Technically it's not a grain but the seed of a leafy plant related to spinac...
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Chow Times |
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Pulling a Bordeaux fake with Washington wine
Lettie Teague of Food & Wine mag has written a delicious article on how she created a counterfeit '82 Mouton to fool snooty wine people. The wine used...
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Crush Crew 2008
Part of our crush crew for 2008 at Township 7.We've been keeping busy bottling while we wait for the bulk of our grapes to ripen.Season is late; blame...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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Shipping Wine: Not in Canada
This topic has been hot in the press lately. Another writer, Craig Pinhey, weighs in on the subject.http://wine.appellationamerica.com/wine-review/62...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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Why You Must See Fleet Foxes Live
All right, so I kind of borrowed the title from a Fleet Foxes gushing article written a little while ago by Stereogum, but nonetheless that statement ...
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Beyond Robson |
active:2 weeks 6 days ago |
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Who would/could buy Ste. Michelle?
As I reported last week, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates is rumored to be on the auction block once the sale of its parent company, US Tobacco, goes throug...
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Online sales of BC wines spiked by other provinces
When you're really good, people start to take notice. This principle must explain why other Canadian provinces are limiting online sales of BC wines t...
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BC Wine Lover |
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Naramata Tailgate at Township 7: Post Mortem
Another sold out event saw wine fans and wine folk mingle at Township 7. About 400 sipped offerings from the 20+ Naramata Bench wineries, ate some gre...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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Washington DC: Rays The Steaks
Jason is a Vancouver area food blogger who hailed from Washington DC. Check out his blog at Eat Vancouver. He is the one who provided us idea of p...
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Chow Times |
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The big rumor: Ste. Michelle for sale?
Is Ste. Michelle Wine Estates for sale? That's the big question as its longtime parent company, US Tobacco of Greenwich, Conn., is being gobbled up by...
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Mission Hill wins award for world's best ice wine
LONDON The International Wine Challenge in London announced Sept. 1 that its trophy for World's Top Icewine was won by Mission Hill Family Estat...
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Words of wisdom
This evening, I was grilling tri tips and Peruvian purple potatoes grown in Eltopia, Wash. This called for a robust red wine, so I went to the cellar ...
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I just used my refractometer to test the sugar lev
I just used my refractometer to test the sugar level of my backyard Sangiovese grapes, and they came up to a somewhat pathetic 16 brix. For making win...
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FVWA wine tasting quick thoughts
Yesterday we took a very quick drive out to Langley to check out the Fraser Valley Wineries Association food and wine event. It was a packed house and...
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BC Wine Lover |
active:4 weeks 5 days ago |
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From 1WineDude to Another
I've been on this wierd winning streak lately.First there was the stove top espresso machine and matching cups,then their was the mini-weather station...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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100 Things You Can Eat
Wine is always best with food and friends. Every once in awhile it's good to remind yourself of that point after you've been to yet another wine tasti...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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Whistler Cornucopia Tickets Available
Tickets to Whistler Cornucopia are now for sale on their website. Cornucopia, Whistler's autumnal tribute to wine, food, and all things excess, has l...
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Eat Vancouver |
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Pork Liver Soup
This is a small interruption to the Washington DC travel series as Ben is away at Chicago right now. Here is a simple soup recipe which Ben enjoys w...
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Chow Times |
active:6 weeks 6 hours ago |
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Northwest Italian reds
A few weeks ago, Wine Press Northwest collected about 75 Northwest Italian reds, wines that use traditionally Italian varieties such as Sangiovese, Ne...
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The Omnivores 100
a post to break up the over the top New York action.... I got it from Wandering CoyoteHere's what to do:1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, i...
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kayaksoup |
active:6 weeks 5 days ago |
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Dine Italia
An Eat Vancouver reader wrote in to tell me about Dine Italia, an early Autumn event that puts Vancouver's Italian restaurants in the spotlight by off...
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Eat Vancouver |
active:7 weeks 18 hours ago |
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Party Mixer: It's a Safety Meeting
Our euphemistically termed gala is happening on Friday, around 4, on September 5.The universal community of wine types, professional, amateur, fans, l...
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Wine & Vine BC |
active:7 weeks 1 day ago |
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FUSE Wine event at LIFT
Ray Signorello Jr. and partners launched a new wine brand, FUSE, on Thursday afternoon at LIFT in Coal Harbour. With amazing weather and a great vi...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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New York City - First Days
There just isn't room to fit all the pictures in... I took over 450, narrowed it down to just under 300 and posted them to flickr, if you want to che...
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kayaksoup |
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THUNDERBIRD SHOW PARK
Last Sunday, I made a trip out to Thunderbird Show Park to watch the Gand Prix sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society. My family and I purchased tic...
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Recipe: Fresh marinara
Last night, I made fresh marinara from this recipe on Epicurean.com. The recipe calls for white wine, and I used Kiona Vineyards Winery's 2007 Chenin ...
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Bottle Shock
It appears I won't need to wait for Bottle Shock to come to the Columbia Valley (which could be awhile because we're far from being a primary market f...
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Summerland gets the Bernie treatment
The Summerland wine route featuring Thornhaven Estate, Dirty Laundry Vineyards, Sonoran Estate and Silk Scarf Winery gets a new identification - Bottl...
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BC Wine Lover |
active:8 weeks 23 hours ago |
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Rachael Ray's sparkling personality
Rachael Ray has turned to two hemispheres for food-pairing wine picks in August.Domaine Ste. Michelle's NV Blanc de Noirs and the Greg Norman Estates ...
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Wine From A Fisherman
I walked the rows in my local liquor store, searching for my wine past. I was looking for labels that I cut my wine teeth on. Those old standards that...
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Wine & Vine BC |
active:8 weeks 2 days ago |
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BC Lieutenant Governor announces 2008 wine awards
On July 14th, the BC Lieutenant Governor's office announced its annual Awards of Excellence for BC Wines. Here's the list below. We were lucky to pick...
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BC Wine Lover |
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VinoCamp: Geeks and Winos!
Next Saturday (August 16) in Vancouver the first ever Vinocamp will get underway at UBC's botanical gardens.The tech/web/internet crowd that also love...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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Okanagan wine tour 2008: BC Wine Lover's picks
Each year BC Wine Lover comes back with as much wine as we can carry, and this year it was about a half-dozen cases of product from BC's finest wineri...
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BC Wine Lover |
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Vinocamp 2008 @ UBC
VinoCamp Vancouver 2008, Vancouver's first wine camp/conference with speakers, wine tasting and food is coming Saturday, August 16th! When: August 16t...
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BC Wine Lover |
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What? Another Izakaya? Toratatsu is my new fav!
Saba (mackerel) Getting Torched, with Barley-fed Pork Salad in ForegroundSeriously Delicious Saba, Post-torchingOnigiri ($4)But Shabu Salad - Barley-f...
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2008 Okanagan wine travel journal arriving soon!
Your winy hosts, Mike and Stacey, will soon fill you in on the sites and savory tastes of their recent Okanagan wine travel here at BC Wine Lover. We ...
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BC Wine Lover |
active:9 weeks 1 day ago |
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Washington Wine Month list
Looking for some bargains? I've prepared the annual Washington Wine Month list - the prices for Washington wines at state liquor stores.You can downlo...
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Summer in the City Exhibition
On Tuesday, August 5th, TRUNK gallery encompasses auto/ONE and affinity auto, held an opening reception for its Summer in the City' Exhibition. ...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
active:9 weeks 3 days ago |
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New Favourite Winery
A trip to the Southern Okanagan this August long weekend resulted in the discovery of a new (to me anyway) winery. Burrowing Owl will always be a cl...
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